He was a railroad man, Station Agent for Chicago & Great Western R.R.
In the US 1900 census, Herbert Francis Shumway (26) and his wife, Eva L. Marshall (26) were residing in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. With them livw three children, Hazel L. Shumway (5), Bessie G. Shumway (3) and Grace Shumway (1/12) AKA Florence